david parsons wrote:
> It might be worthwhile to add a requirements function call to the
> kernel, so you can have drivers explicitly load what they depend
> on before they start loading. Something like:
>
> need("aha1542");
>
> in the buslogic driver?
That would be wonderful... I really don't like defining driver load
order implicitly through Makefile link order. I imagine "need()" would
have to be some sort of trigger which ld (or a pre-ld script) uses to
figure out the link order for the static kernel image?
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